brain networks
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New vistas for alpha-frequency band oscillations
Palva S, Palva JM. Article in Trends in Neurosciences Abstract The amplitude of alpha-frequency band (8-14 Hz) activity in the human electroencephalogram is suppressed by eye opening, visual stimuli and visual scanning, whereas...
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The units of thought
What is the nature of thought? And what is the resting state? Moshe Bar and colleagues argues in a new paper (PDF) in the journal Hippocampus that besides the long-held idea that associative processing provides the vehicle of t...
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Resting states in unconscious monkeys
Nature has an interesting report from Marc Raichle‘s laboratory that studies the resting states in monkeys. This study not only demonstrates that resting states occur in non-human primates, but that it is possible to find...
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The Multi-Source Interference Task
Abstract of The Multi-Source Interference Task: an fMRI task that reliably activates the cingulo-frontal-parietal cognitive/attention network, in Nature. In this protocol we describe how to perform the Multi-Source Interference...
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Self-projection and the brain
Abstract of Self-projection and the brain, in Trends in Cognitive Science: When thinking about the future or the upcoming actions of another person, we mentally project ourselves into that alternative situation. Accumulating da...